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Questions tagged [knowledge-management]

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How do you manage your knowledge base?

As programmers we have a lot of inputs: Ebooks Code snippets Interesting emails Documents Web articles Blog posts StackOverflow questions Podcasts ... Which tools do you use to store, organize, search and consult all of this stuff? Is there a…
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How do you deal with an information hoarder?

We must have all come across them - developers that have been around for ages and have a fantastic domain knowledge and yet they fail to share that knowledge with their team. The team desperately needs to share the knowledge, but they can't seem to…
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Forgetting stuff I've done before and how do you fix this

I'm not sure if it's just me or if this is common in our field. The past year has been a bit intense for me. I've been learning a few different technologies to get some tasks done and sometimes I've had to completely focus on that one new…
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What do you use to organize your team knowledge?

Last year, me and three good old friends of mine founded a small web/mobile development team. Things are going pretty well. We're learning a lot, and new people are joining the group. Keeping knowledge always updated and in-sync is vital for us.…
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Software to organize and maintain project documentation, specification?

I'm looking for software to organize and maintain projects internal documentation, specification, requirements, etc. Currently we store all documentation as lots of MS Word DOC files in a source control repository, which gives us version control,…
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Does your programming knowledge decrease if you don't practice?

I'm a novice programmer. I study languages such as C, C++, Python and Java (mainly focusing on C++). I'm what you'd call "young and inexperienced" and I admit that because I can't claim otherwise. As a student, I have many other problems besides…
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How does your company manage knowledge and information?

I am interested in the architecture, methods and software used by your company to capture and store knowledge. Is the information easily searchable (especially by non-techies) ? Is it stored in a central repository or in several places ? Do you find…
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How to share problem solving knowledge in a multiteam group?

I've been working in multiteam groups for as long as I've been a web developer, and in my experience, a team can be a lonely soldier or several people; generally a company will have multiple teams working on different projects and once the project…
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What wiki/document system do you recommend for knowledge-management?

I'm founder of a web-site called Now.in. I wrote all programs by my-self at first. And we are going to run a start-up company. More people will soon get involved. Some know-how/overviews only exist in my mind, it takes time to explain to newcomers.…
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Knowledge base / questionarie / desicion-tree / decision-making platform

I am looking for a software platform/programming framework which can do the following: INPUT: a user inputs some text PROCESS/REFERENCE DATA: the user is then asked to answer a list some questions regarding the INPUT and attribute the answers…
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